[CentOS] EPEL repo problem

Wed Jan 30 15:58:58 UTC 2019
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 09:45, SternData <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
wrote:

> On 1/30/19 5:57 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 00:25, SternData <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> This keeps logging:
> >>
> >> Could not get metalink
> >> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64
> error
> >> was
> >> 14: HTTPS Error 503 - Service Unavailable
> >>
> >> I've removed the epel-release package, done a "yum clean all", then
> >> reinstalled it, but still get the same error.
> >>
> >>
> > Can you run the code from: https://github.com/puiterwijk/check_metalink
> to
> > see if we can pin down the proxy which is the problem (there are 14 and
> our
> > checks are showing they are ok so I need to pin this down somewhere).
> >
> [sdstern at sugaree check_metalink]$ ./check_metalink --repo epel
> --check-mirrors
> Client IP: 2604:a880:800:a1::6ab:c001
>
> Testing repo=epel, arch=x86_64
>         Metalink provided by: proxy11.fedoraproject.org
>         Server date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:43:18 GMT
> Repo epel, arch x86_64 errored: list index out of range
> OK metalinks (0):
> Bad metalinks (0):
> Exception metalinks (1): epel.x86_64
> OK metalink means that at least one mirror is valid
>
>
OK it looks like the server we have this proxy on is swamped and is causing
problems. I am trying to see what we can do to fix that.

There is no official epel.i386 so the second one errors for that reason.


>
> [sdstern at sugaree check_metalink]$ ./check_metalink --repo epel
> --check-master
> Client IP: 2604:a880:800:a1::6ab:c001
>
> Testing repo=epel, arch=i386
>         Metalink provided by: proxy11.fedoraproject.org
>         Server date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:43:45 GMT
> Repo epel, arch i386 errored: list index out of range
> Testing repo=epel, arch=x86_64
>         Metalink provided by: proxy11.fedoraproject.org
>         Server date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:43:45 GMT
> Repo epel, arch x86_64 errored: list index out of range
> OK metalinks (0):
> Bad metalinks (0):
> Exception metalinks (2): epel.i386, epel.x86_64
> [sdstern at sugaree check_metalink]$
>
>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -- Steve
>


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.